Dogs are capable of being drug dogs. It's just not how they are typically used. Not that dogs should be used in the manufactured War on Drugs anyway.

Well if we're going down that road, almost all child kidnappings are done by the kids other parent and it's not to kill them.

So if we are looking to stop all child kidnappings that result in the child's murder, we would have an insanely high false positive result. You'd be jailing thousands of people, leaving their kids orphaned and vulnerable to violence. So yeah, don't use the shitty tools to cause more harm than good.

FP/N=FP/FP+TN

Good thing we can adapt and change.

Why would we want to hit that number? Humans are suffocating the planet. We should be trying to bring that number down.

You mentioned the police and DA thinking it may have been valid at the time. I'm in a completely different sector but I sometimes have to evaluate equipment and software that is supposed to prevent medical errors. I can say that in my industry the amount of BS that is slung to potential buyers by sales representatives is rampant, and oftentimes the product is complete garbage. I can only imagine the people selling whatever it was back when this was considered to be a valid investigative tool probably had the same kind of BS sales tactics and tried to fool them into believing it just so they could make a profit.

Yet another drawback of unregulated capitalism in a sector where there needs to be a lot of scientific oversight and thorough validation due to the chances of inflicting such great harm on a human being whether that's some sort of life altering injury or taking away someone's life by putting them in jail.

And I'll just qualify that by saying this in no way excuses them, but it just kind of struck a chord based on the experiences I've had in a different sector.

The growth rate will be zero when it gets to that total number of people.

Naw. The police will claim they'll need more money for mental health services for their officers, the state will give it, and then nothing will change.

It's a serious problem.

>Angela Diaz was charged with 10 felony counts. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison in October 2017.
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>His sentencing is set for June 30. Diaz, now 44, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

These sentences are not inline with their crimes, they put this woman through some serious shit! And used his position as a deputy U.S. Marshal to facilitate their crimes.

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Yeah it makes me pretty sad. I also worked at a liquor store and people blew money there too like no tomorrow. Like we had a dude who would hit whippits and had jaundice but felt the need to buy cheese serving boards (like the fake granite ones without actual cheese) and booze instead of food. He pulled out a wad of ones and had like 10 whippits fall out one time. Said it was his last few bucks so I refused to sell him anything and told him I would check him out if he got food.

Yeah I will gladly take a false arrest that can easily be cleared up over a dead child.

Amazon's hiring algorithm once had to be turned off becsuse it became racist and sexist. It was automatically excluding non white and female sounding names.

Iirc, it was because the majority of applicants were white males. As a result, most of the hires were white males. The AI recognized this as meaning that white males were the ideal candidate and would hire them more, which caused a feedback loop.

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It would be great if indeed it did the problem being facial recognition isn't anywhere near 100% accurate and this could lead to false arrests and the real kidnapper getting away.

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Whats this about the Marjorie Taylor Greene report?

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While I agree… Cunningham’s law is a thing.

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Relevant Xkcd

I always got a chuckle from those charts that used to predict cities like Kinshasa and Lagos would have 70 million population by 2050.

Like do they think as these places urbanize they would keep having kids at the rate an agrarian population?

This joke would be funny to people who don’t file the news. The Chinese population has been stagnant for a while now.

I remember freshman year in college writing a term paper about this kind of stuff, really scares you when you look closer into it

I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that exact thing has been done before in the past

And a possible monthly government check.

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